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Hugh Candlin wrote:
> "Bill in Co." <someone@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:uZpYTeYFFHA.3972@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>> Hugh Candlin wrote:
>>> "Bill in Co." <someone@earthlink.net> wrote in message
>>> news:uGTCOHWFFHA.560@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>>>> An update. This was interesting. I found I was only able to remove
half
>>>> of those plugins w/o loading errors,
>>>> so I went back to PDF Speedup, which,
>>>> somehow, is able to manage Acrobat 6 properly with only two plugins.
>>>> I think PDF Speedup disables the "update" plugin and its dependencies
(at
>>>> least that's my guess), and some others, but, whatever, it appears to
be
>>>> working!
>>>
>>> I have no problems, and I only have the 3 that I posted about.
>>
>> Well, before I did any of this I used the Update option of Acrobat (while
on
>> line) to see if there was anything I could still get for this somewhat
dated
>> version (6.00).
>>
>>> Sounds like your app makes changes OK,
>>> but doesn't reverse those changes properly.
>>
>> Nope, cause I restored the previous registry, and also checked SFC, and
kept
>> track of the Program File Acrobat 6.0 subfolder changes. (But as I
said, I
>> *did* use the Update feature once before doing any of this).
>>
>>> Did you reboot anywhere in the process at all?
>>
>> ALWAYS! If anything, I am *overzealous* in that regard. It's nearly
>> instinctive with me to reboot ANY time I make ANY changes, and usually on
>> a one by one event basis.
>>
>> The only thing in plug-ins right now is EWH32.api and Search.api.
>> Acrobat comes up a lot faster, I'll have to say. (All the other
plug-ins were
>> moved by the PDF Speed Up "program" to the Optional subfolder.
>>
>> (BTW, I also checked out some reviews of this small program, and they
were
>> all positive, which was encouraging to hear).
>
> I'll spell it out as I see it, to see if I understand you correctly
>
> 1 You booted up today, or yesterday or earlier, at which time
> you created the most recent Registry backup file RB???.CAB
>
> 2 You ran your new app, which made Registry changes
>
> 3 You ran Adobe Update, which updated Adobe Acrobat Reader,
> and made Registry changes
>
> 4 You ran a Registry restore to this morning's version ?
> or to an earlier version ? either of which would lack
> the Registry changes made by the Acrobat Reader Update
>
> 5 You now get Adobe Acrobat Reader execution errors
NOT "execution errors", per se. I simply got plug-in loading errors (or
rather, warnings), for the "missing" api plug-ins, unless I left about half
of them or so in there, (because some were obviously being loaded, that
depended on some others being available and loaded too).
Also, the numbered sequence above is incorrect, as written above. I did
the Adobe Update thing first before I ever installed that PDF Speedup
program. And THEN I backed up the registry, and went to bed.
Then, on the next day, I went ahead and installed PDF Speedup, tried it out,
then later decided to use its restore button to revert back to the original
setup, (which it did). And just to be sure, I then reinstalled the old
registry just predating this.
At this point I tried removing MOST of the plugins, but could only remove
about half of them or so before i started encountering some of those missing
plugin warnings.
Finally, at that point, later in the afternoon, I just went ahead and
reinstalled PDF Speedup. I say "reinstalled", because actually it doesn't
even have an installer, per se. It's just a tiny registry modifying
program, as far as I can tell. Very lightweight.
> Before you review and make any necessary corrections
> to the above analysis, I would copy the RBxxx.CAB files
> to a safe place, to be sure they are not overlayed.
>
> And I would refrain from any installs, or automatic updates,
> until you conduct your own mental walkthrough
> of what transpired, to establish if you need to go back
> to the Registry that you overwrote.
I think I'm ok - as I said, no hard execution errors resulted, only those
soft loading api errors (missing api plugin warnings). Of course NOW I
don't have any of those warning errors (of missing some api plug ins)
Anyway, that's a long winded explanation, which probably wasn't the
clearest, but it's after midnite, and my writing style may be slippin!
Hopefully it wasn't too confusing the way I explained it.